The Eternal City A History of Rome [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B082MS5G5W | 2020 | 22 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 605 MB
Author: Ferdinand Addis
Narrator: Pete Cross

Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the Caput Mundi come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses these questions by tracing the history of the Eternal City told through the dramatic key moments in its history: the mythic founding of Rome in 753 BC, the murder of Caesar in 44 BC, the coronation of Charlemagne in AD 800, the reinvention of the imperial ideal, the painting of the Sistine chapel, the trial of Galileo, Mussolini's March on Rome of 1922, the release of Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1960, and the Occupy riots of 2011. City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage - Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the 27 centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells its rich story in a grand narrative style for a new generation of listeners.


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How Hitchens Can Save the Left Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BVXB21XN | 2023 | 12 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Matt Johnson
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today's left, he's remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout-a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who traded his left-wing principles for neoconservatism after the September 11 attacks. In How Hitchens Can Save the Left, Matt Johnson argues that this easy narrative gets Hitchens exactly wrong. Hitchens was a lifelong champion of free inquiry, humanism, and universal liberal values. He was an internationalist who believed all people should have the liberty to speak and write openly, to be free of authoritarian domination, and to escape the arbitrary constraints of tribe, faith, and nation. He was a figure of the Enlightenment and a man of the left until the very end, and his example has never been more important.


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Garbage Land On the Secret Trail of Trash [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B09B2SSNHH | 2021 | 11 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Elizabeth Royte
Narrator: Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino

Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus; neighbors of massive waste dumps; CEOs making fortunes by encouraging waste or encouraging recycling - often both at the same time; scientists trying to revive our most polluted places; fertilizer fanatics and adventurers who kayak amid sewage; paper people, steel people, aluminum people, plastic people, and even a guy who swears by recycling human waste.


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Freedom from Fear A 12 Step Guide to Personal and National Recovery [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BHNSN4M1 | 2023 | 4 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Mark McDonald
Narrator: Axel Bosley

The pandemic of fear continues to grip our world long past the clinical effects of COVID-19. Many people cannot let go of the fear fueling the Mass Delusional Psychosis which has plagued millions since early 2020. In his latest book, Freedom from Fear, Dr. Mark McDonald applies his well-honed psychiatric acuity to the undiagnosed epidemic of fear addiction. Just like a drug, fear becomes an unhealthy mental and emotional dependency that must be broken. In Freedom from Fear, Dr. McDonald presents the essential twelve-step guide to personal and worldwide recovery. His precepts include simple but practical steps like "Face the Mirror," "Don't be a Sheep," "Choose Reality," "Reject Narcissism," "Think for Yourself," "Embrace Adulthood," "Pay Attention," and "Embrace Fearless Leadership." Bold and straightforward, Dr. McDonald once again draws on his experience as a psychiatrist and physician to diagnose this worldwide affliction, he prescribes the consummate treatment plan for eradicating this Mass Delusional Psychosis once and for all.


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Formidable American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BPN1D4S3 | 2023 | 17 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 474 MB
Author: Elisabeth Griffith
Narrator: Elisabeth Griffith

The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites.


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Fathers and Sons The Autobiography of a Family [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B09XBMXGBK | 2023 | 16 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 456 MB
Author: Alexander Waugh
Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it-and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of note (and whom Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish); both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock Victorianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh, who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and eccentricity, becoming one of England's most incorrigibly cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs.


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Don't Think, Dear On Loving and Leaving Ballet [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B09YBLDSPG | 2023 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Alice Robb
Narrator: Alice Robb

An incisive exploration of ballet's role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet. Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. But by age fifteen, she had to face the reality that she would never meet the impossibly high standards of the hyper-competitive ballet world. After she quit, she tried to avoid ballet-only to realize, years later, that she was still haunted by the lessons she had absorbed in the mirror-lined studios of Lincoln Center, and that they had served her well in the wider world. The traits ballet takes to an extreme-stoicism, silence, submission-are valued in girls and women everywhere. Profound, nuanced, and passionately researched, Don't Think, Dear is Robb's excavation of her adolescent years as a dancer and an exploration of how those days informed her life for years to come.


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Dear Body What I Lost, What I Gained, and What I Learned Along the Way [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0B3R55118 | 2023 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 205 MB
Author: Brittany Williams
Narrator: Brittany Williams

The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons. Raised in a turbulent home, Brittany Williams learned to use food as a coping mechanism to manage her feelings at a young age. When she was 14, a family member's comment "no man will want you with a pudgy figure like that" forever changed the way she viewed her body and opened a door, new and alluring, into the world of self-loathing, self-punishment, and dieting. Told with Brittany's unflagging honesty and trademark vulnerability, Dear Body describes the tensions of growing up in a body that often felt more like a traitor than a friend. As we share in her deepest moments of joy and heartache, Brittany reveals that the path to healing requires much more than changing what you eat, and explains how she was finally able to take charge of the course of her health and her life. Filled with poignant lessons and hard-won advice, Dear Body is the story of a woman's relationship with her body, and herself. A story unique to Brittany, but familiar to all of us.


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Confronting Saddam Hussein George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BWWZVBFC | 2023 | 11 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Melvyn P. Leffler
Narrator: Christopher P. Brown

America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations. In Confronting Saddam Hussein, the eminent historian of US foreign policy Melvyn P. Leffler analyzes why the US chose war and who was most responsible for the decision. Employing a unique set of personal interviews with dozens of top officials and declassified American and British documents, Leffler vividly portrays the emotions and anxieties that shaped the thinking of the president after the shocking events of 9/11. He shows how fear, hubris, and power influenced Bush's approach to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At the core of Leffler's account is his compelling portrait of Saddam Hussein. Rather than stressing Bush's preoccupation with promoting freedom or democracy, Leffler emphasizes Hussein's brutality, opportunism, and unpredictability and illuminates how the Iraqi dictator's record of aggression and intransigence haunted the president and influenced his calculations.


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Caesar's Civil War 49-44 BC [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BNVWM8CR | 2023 | 3 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 178 MB
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator: John Telfer

Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced. Together they had brought vast stretches of territory under Roman dominion. In 49 BC they turned against each other and plunged Rome into civil war. In this audiobook, Adrian Goldsworthy relates the gripping story of this desperate power struggle. Drawing on original accounts of the war, he examines how legion was pitched against legion in a vicious battle for political domination of the vast Roman world. The armies were evenly matched, but in the end, Caesar's genius as a commander and his great good luck brought him victory in 45 BC. Updated and revised for the new edition, this is a detailed introduction to one of the last conflicts in the Roman Republic before the establishment of the Roman Empire.


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